All Finance articles – Page 344
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HSJ Local
Sandwell and West Birmingham in 'difficult' contract talks
COMMERCIAL: Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust is struggling to reach an agreement on its 2011-12 contract with its lead commissioner.
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HSJ Local
North Staffs acute trust seeks more efficiency plans to remain ‘viable’
FINANCE: University Hospital of North Staffordshire is likely to need more cost cutting plans in order to remain “financially viable” next year.
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HSJ Local
Plymouth Teaching PCT delays opening of new building after failing to organise CQC registration
STRUCTURE: A building Plymouth Teaching PCT plans to use for children and adolescent mental health services will not open on time as it has not been registered with Care Quality Commission.
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HSJ Local
Three consortia in South Tees
STRUCTURE: Three commissioning consortia are emerging across South Tees, covering Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland PCTs.
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HSJ Local
Halved surplus will impact on North Staffs capital programme
FINANCE: University Hospital of North Staffordshire is predicting an end of year surplus of £4.1m but had achieved less than £1m in surplus by December.
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HSJ Local
North Staffs trust confident of surplus after property value advice
FINANCE: The mental health trust in North Staffordshire is now able to forecast a small surplus, contrary to previous months.
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HSJ Local
NHS Bath and North East Somerset reveals £6m savings plan
FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset community services plans to save £6.7m in the delivery of services over the next five years.
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HSJ Local
Weston Area Health Trust does deal with PCT on overperformance
FINANCE: NHS North Somerset has agreed to pay Weston Health Trust an additional £600,000 for over performance above the value of its contract.
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HSJ Local
£1m from private mental health underspend funding acute overspends at NHS Dudley
FINANCE: NHS Dudley is using a £1m underspend on its private sector mental health services to offset a £2.9m acute overspend.
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HSJ Local
Oxfordshire PCT to delegate most commissioning in April
FINANCE: NHS Oxfordshire is ready to delegate about two thirds of its commissioning budget to its single commissioning consortium from April.
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News
Medical errors to cost hospitals payment
The government has confirmed its plan not to pay hospitals if patients are harmed or killed as a result of blunders.
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HSJ Local
Leicester PCTs to shed 106 posts
WORKFORCE: NHS Leicester City and NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland are slashing 106 posts as part of management cost reductions.
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Comment
Noel Plumridge: trapped in PFI purgatory
Of the 16 pages of last week’s Managing the Transition letter from Richmond House, the provider side of the NHS occupies a mere three paragraphs. One about the foundation trust “pipeline”, one on separating primary care trusts from their former provider arms and one on encouraging the independent sector.
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News
Compensation danger over LIFT contract transfers
The impending abolition of primary care trusts has made the NHS vulnerable to claims totalling in the “high hundreds of millions” from companies that hold local improvement finance trust contracts.
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Leader
Squaring the price competition and efficiency circle
“Where would you like your vasectomy, sir?” is not a phrase you’re likely to hear in the NHS as many primary care trusts have ruled out paying for the procedure anywhere other than in GP practices.
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Comment
Andrew Dillon: the new mission for NICE
The white paper Liberating the NHS and the Health Bill currently going through Parliament describe a radically new architecture for the NHS together with a new, outcomes based approach to driving improvements in care.
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Comment
Can value-based drug pricing deliver a 'postcode lottery' alternative?
Value-based drug pricing is meant to reduce the postcode lottery but could end up achieving the opposite.
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News
Monitor chair warns against 'inappropriate influence' on pensions
Newly appointed Monitor chair David Bennett has warned politicians against imposing “inappropriate influence” in debates over whether NHS pensions are blocking competition.
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HSJ Local
PCTs fearful of £9.5m overspend on continuing care
FINANCE: Birmingham’s three primary care trusts are warning they could end the year £9.5m overspent on continuing healthcare.
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HSJ Local
NHS Enfield predicting £11.2m deficit for year-end
FINANCE: The north east London primary care trust reported managing to hold its deficit to £10.6m in December, the same as October and November.